Strasbourg, 01/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has decided this year to award the Vaclav Havel human rights prize to an Azerbaijani dissident, at the very time that Azerbaijan holds the rotating presidency of the committee of ministers of the Council of Europe until November.
As the winner has been imprisoned since December 2013, his father, Asaf Mammadov, collected the prize, of a value of €60,000, on his behalf. It was awarded by Anne...